denfromoakvillemilton
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Honestly I'd rather go to Wonderland than be on this rollercoaster..........
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Yes, I too recall the incident where Paula Fletcher in an invited speech yelled at a constituent and then the mayor shook her hand and said 'That was great!'
Ford's budget is shaping up to look very challenging. Cutting the car tax on Jan 1 is apparently going to cost $64 million. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...x-is-axed-on-jan-1/article1829201/?cmpid=rss1
That's a $285 million shortfall. Without a property tax increase, where's the cash going to come from?
^His numbers aren't supposed to make sense. It's called starve the beast. The objective is to engineer a fiscal crisis in order to justify shrinking government.
It is the opposite of stuffing the beast, where the objective is to expand government but retain surpluses in order to give the impression of fiscal prudence.
Either way the loser is the city and it's citizens. It is becoming more and more clear that Ford does not intend to bring balance back to the city. He intends to be the anti-Miller, or rather he wants to out Miller Miller.
It's unfortunate because he is setting up the city for another wild oscillation to the left.
Ford's budget is shaping up to look very challenging. Cutting the car tax on Jan 1 is apparently going to cost $64 million. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...x-is-axed-on-jan-1/article1829201/?cmpid=rss1
That's a $285 million shortfall. Without a property tax increase, where's the cash going to come from?
On the campaign trail Ford called for commercial taxes to be set at a level below the 905. He hasn't spoken much about that since getting elected, and it would open a huge gap in the budget.
Ford isn't a fiscal conservative, he's a populist (As calls for unneeded police and subways prove). If it comes down to a choice between raising commercial or residential taxes, he's likely to pick the latter.
He didn't get much support from Toronto's business community in his run, and he raised less money than any of the major candidates, so he also doesn't owe them anything.
Yes, I too recall the incident where Paula Fletcher in an invited speech yelled at a constituent and then the mayor shook her hand and said 'That was great!'
I think that was his point....